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[[circled]] 20 [[/circled]] still thick. Manage to get myself lost in fog! So come on back up to ridge. See single Cinn (Hummer) alone in scrub of ridge 8:40. [[margin in red]] Cinn [[/margin]] Going to try going down hill again Hear several more Yellowbellies on the way. The species is [[underlined]] common [[/underline]] here. 7:46 8760ft. Hear obvious [[underlined]] torquatus [[/underlined]] Song. NODWAH 7:51 A few feet further down. See single Atlapetes [[checkmark]] CXXIV. Silent and alone. Feeding 3 ft up thick scrub (NOTE: I [[underlined]] still [[/underlined]] think that this is [[underlined]] rufinucha [[/underlined]]. But the back of its crown patch certainly is [[underlined]] very [[/underlined]] pale - altho much too broad to be [[underlined]] pallidinucha [[/underlined]].) A little further down, see single bird [[checkmark]] perched silent and alone. Fog is very thick. So impossible to identify bird definitely. Probably [[underlined]] Th. cyanocephala [[/underlined]]. 8:03 am. Fog starts to lift, a little, just as I am nearing USTF area reached yesterday afternoon (this time, I found the right path!) See a single Sooty Thrush fly by alone. 8:07. 8690ft. See single Orange-billed Saltator alone. 2 ft up in thick [[underlined]] moist [/[underlined]] scrub (sic!). [[underlined]] It certainly looks as is fog does not encourage the formation of mixed flocks here!!! [[/underlined]] 8:25 am. 8690 ft. Fog pretty well lifted. See definite mixed flock. Includes 2 [[three checkmarks]] Blue and Blacks, 1 [[checkmarked]] Basileuterus type. Latter very noisy. Uttering R's. Sounds like [[underlined]] nigrocristatus [[/underlined]]. All birds close together. 10 ft up in USTF - scrub, edge pasture